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This is Your Life: Duke Kahanamoku (Father of Surfing)

by: Ralph Edwards

Publication date: 1957

Usage: Public Domain

Topics: This is your life, Classic TV, Duke Kahanamoku, Olympics, swimmer, surfing, Surfer, Hawaiian,

Item Size: 750.2M

This is Your Life: Duke Kahanamoku
Hawaiian Olympic swimmer who won three gold and two silver medals. He is also considered the father of surfing due to his promotion of the sport, greatly increasing its popularity.
First broadcast live on NBC TV on February 20th 1957.